Can Anyone Identify this Spydie ???

Normark

Normark

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Hey Guys....

This beastie crawled across my arm a few weeks ago while I was packing my Ruck after a weekend at the cottage...It almost cause me to have cardio episode!!:)

The picture doesn't really do it justice,,but this critter was Frigging Huge..:)

spydie.jpg


ttyle

Eric...
 
Which spydie?

Both would be fun to have in your pocket, one more than the other...

the knife is either:
c48 Wegner
c49 Wegner jr

the Jr is discontinued, but one hell of a knife.
 
OMG!
If that thing had crawled over my arm, or for that matter, within 100yds of me, I'd still be curled up in the fetal position, on the floor, in a corner, babbling incoherently.
Spiders (specially big nasty ones like that) are the only thing I'm really scared of.
The picture even gives me the skeevies.
Lenny
 
Hi Eric

The actual arachnid looks like a dock spider...also known as a grey fishing spider. I have seen ones that would would span an average hand in the rocks of georgian bay where they are called rock spiders. They are also quite large in the Muskoka area. In Haliburton they are a little smaller, probasbly because of the cold. The suckers can give a very annoying bite as well.

take care

ted
 
Geez, these things are in Canada?! Please tell me these things don't live in Toronto.
 
Actually, the spyder with 8 eyes looks like a Thin-Legged Wolf Spider. These spider's range all over North America. They are active wandering hunters with their own home range or territory which they actively defend IIRC. The one that crawled over you was probably just making the rounds.:D

We had a minor plague of these big bastids a couple of months ago down here. They got into my house and were popping up everywhere. One tried to share the bed with me and the wife. We weren't in a sharing mood. We chased the sucker down and lopped it's head off.
My wife ran in from the kitchen the next night, grabbed my arm (so hard I thought I was gonna need to go get it set and casted) and screamed "legs!! LEGS!!":eek: She dragged me into the kitchen, pointed to the sink and there were the biggest damn spider legs I've ever seen hanging over the lip of a pot in the sink. I painted that monster with Raid Max. That wolfy was almost 4" across.
The absolute final straw came when I was sitting at this desk typing away here on the forums and felt something tickle my knee under the desk. I figured it was a skeeter bug and lifted my knee to squash it up under the desk when the SOB bit me. I jumped up and this spider almost three inches across fell from under the desk where my knee was. The next day, we bug bombed the house REALLY good, came back and found all likely hiding/entry spots and plugged them up and haven't seen a one since.
Thank God!
 
I agree. That sucker is a Wolf spider. Loves old barns here in New England and you never have a rodent problem!!!! They are kind of like my wife. When the female has had enough they just eat the male and spit out his legs. My wife does that too, minus my wallet:eek:
Wolf.......
 
Hey Guys....

Thanks for all the replies....

I've pretty much came to the conclusion from talking to people who know the island pretty good that it is a Wolf spider...

Man I still get the Hebbie Jeebies when I think about that big SOB crawling down my arm...

My buddy use to tease me that I sleep in a body bag when out in the bush..I keep all of my bedding in the body bag and keep it zipped up while I'm away....

I think he now understands why I don't want any nasties in my bag!!:)
Now I've got another reason other than keeping ticks and ants out..:)

ttyle

Eric...
 
mschwoeb - I think you'll find, if you look in an atlas, that Australia is not really very close to "Northeastern South America" as the diagram says. However, we do have the sydney funnelweb - kills quite a few people every year.

BTW, i'm pretty sure those 11 inch bastids are nonvenemous - kind of the arachnid version of a python - that baby doesn't need any venom :D

James
 
Unlike the Australian funnelweb mentioned by James Healy, South American birdeaters - in fact, most tarantulas - are not at all dangerous to humans. Generally, their bite feels pretty much like a bee sting, and they're not aggressive to begin with, so they seldom bite.
I kinda like'em. :D

Leo
 
That specimen looks just like a thin-legged wolf spider, or a selenopid crab spider. The former would seem too big in regards to the photo, and the latter does not occupy habitat in Canada. It could be a brownish-gray fishing spider, although the abdomen in your photo appears a little to bulbous to be this species. If the Spyderco in your photo is the Wegner Jr., the creature is probably a fishing spider.

If the knife is a large Wegner, the creature is a big-ass Carolina wolf spider.
 
Any of you guys seen a Garden Spider? I think they're mistakenly called banana spiders. They're got a body about 3 or 4 inches long, and with legs extended, are about 7 inches across. Body is yellow and black. We had one of these on my porch about 10 years ago, the damn things are almost impossible to kill. I used a whole can of Raid, then I had to do my best impression of River Dance to finally crush the little bastard.



Chris
 
Chris,

Please, no offense, but the garden spiders you describe sound just a little on the large side. The largest Argiope I've seen is about an inch long. I'm sure they can get a little bigger.....but 7 inches altogether?


People,

DO NOT kill spiders. Spiders eat pesky insects. Spiders are our friends. Spiders DO NOT spread filth and disease. Spiders DO NOT make noise, and keep us awake. Spiders DO NOT get into our food. Spiders are NOT parasitic. Spiders DO NOT fly and sting.
Next time you see a large wolf spider on your porch or in your kitchen pots, gently pick it up and take it outside. You will feel good about it. :)
 
Hey komondor,

It appears you were right. I just looked up garden spider, and that's exactly what it was. I guess some things just look a lot bigger when you're younger, especially when you think they're trying to eat ya. :D

Also, I no longer kill spiders. I agree that they do more good than anything. I tell my parents the same thing about snakes, let them live, and we'll have fewer problems with mice.
 
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